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WHEN LOVE WENT BY. SENATOR STEWART HAS NEVER BEEN SHAVED. SLAVERY IN LONDON. When Love went by 1 scarcely bert My eyes to i»ee which way he went. Life ha<l so many joys to show, What time had 1 to watch him go. Or bid him in, whom folly scut? DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF EN GLISH SHOP WORKERS But when tlie day was well nigh spent, From out the casement long I leant. Ah, would I had been watching so When Love went by! Infinite Horrors of the “Living-in" SjHtena Enforced by Hick I roprie- tore—Both Men und Women Are Poor ly Paid and Heavily Fined. Gray days with dismal nights are blent. Lonely and sad and discontent; I would his feet had been more slow. Oh, heart of mine, how could we know Or realize what passing meant When Love went by? ; —Wouiun’s Home Companion. T was the yellow kitten who did It,” Miss Priscilla Price said at trie church social in her most positive manner, and no one, not eveu Mrs. 'Lias Miller, pretended to contradict her. “It’s the truth, Indeed,” Mrs. Sarah Crump agreed, with her fat, comfort able chucklt*. ami the society in a body responded, "That’s so.” Yes, tlie yellow kitten was responsi ble for tlie wedding that was to come off to-morrow and that would tints unite forever not only two very attract ive young people, but also tne weil- kno a n families of Price and Campbell. But we have begun at the wrong end of the story, for .Miss Priscilla ough; io have made, and in face did make the remark about tlie yellow kitten at the Senator Stewart of Nevada, who is the proud possessor of ths most luxuriant end of the narrative, and not at the growth of whiskers in the Senate, lias never been shaved in his life. His beard beginning. Ami thus, to get things began to sprout when he was about 16. and he is now 75. "Oh, yes.” said he the straight, we will start over again in the other day, “I have often thought of shaviug. Kind-hearted friends have given old fashioned orthodox way. me razors and advised me to go to work on my beard, but 1 never took their Once upon a time (not so z.»ry long advice. Yon see, when 1 was a young man 1 never owned a razor, and I had to let my whiskers run wild. Now it is too late. My constituents would rage and ago, either) the little village of Pine my political career would be wrecked.” ville nourished like a green bay tree. It Is true It had not arrived at trolley cars or electric lights, but It was a very the Young People’s Pleasure Club, and hatred, malice and all uncharitable charming place to visit nevertheless. the favorite eveu of matrons and spin ness. Bicycling was not entirely unheard of, sters at sewing bees ami Dorcas socie Ere the winter had advanced Charlie though those wiio rode were scarce—a ties, and a perfect idol at home. She Price was known throughout Pineville few visitors nt the summer boarding was an only child, and the love that to be Mabel Campbell's "steady com house in the little hills Just outside the seemed to overflow from father and pany,” ami although Miss Priscilla, at village had Introduced the wheel, bui mother was expended upon Innumer the head of the Price family, and old the most conservative Pinevlllians, able pets. She had two fat Yorkshire I Mr. Jonas Campbell, Mabel's great un Miss Priscilla Price at the head, quite puppies, a pug dog. a parrot, and a cat de, the chief of the Campbell tribe, de frowned down upon the sport, and Miss who recently lmd added to the proces clared in unmeasured language their Rebecca Slow has said, In season and sion a yellow kitten, of the story. This opinion of the doings of their young rel out of m*ason, that "If any niece of hers small animal was up to mischief of all atives, it was useless, and. In fact, hur so demeaned herself as to be guilty of kinds, and had the most exploring turn ried up matters. Then the two moth such an unladylike, worldly amuse of mind, for she was forever getting ers, who secretly bore no malice, ex ment, she would be sorry, that's all.” lost and being returned to her mistress changed calls and actually Mrs. Camp and then an expression of having al by little boys of the village, who thus bell was overheard to say that Mrs. ready made a will would pass over her turn«I many an honest penny. Price’s sausage receipt was the best in austere countenance. One afternoon Mabel had been out in the village, while Mrs. Price made no But to the story! There were two the woods with her young friends hunt denial of having borrowed Mrs. Camp prominent families In the village who ing for chestnuts, and on her return bell's knit quilt as a guide for the one hr.d lived there since I he very existence was greted with the sad tidings that she was-making to exhibit at the coun of tne settlement, ami wlt'a whom all the yellow kitten had again strayed ty fair In the spring. From that tlie fathers of the two the best people craved to be connected from home. A search throughout the in some way. They wore the Campbells place was at once begun. Evening peacemakers met and discussed poli and the Prices, and Miss Priscilla, who came oil, however, and no yellow kitten tics, and not boundary lines over the Insists upon getting Into print Just as put lu an appearance. Mabel became disputed fence. By this time, as may If she were a heroine, was one of the much distress«!, ns she was sure that well be Imagined, the wedding prep most respect«! members of the latter an evil fate had at last overtaken her arations were well under way. At the tribe. As It has I mh - ii hinted before, pet. She begged to be allowed to send suggestion of Charlie his new house this Is an old-fashioned story, ami has over to the Prices, and see If the wan was to be built directly over the part of a genuine heroine, to wit, Mabel Camp derer. scorning old opinions, hnd found th«> ground that both Campbells and bell. Of course, there Is a hero, too, her way there, but her parents would Prices claimed, and this was universal whom the girls said “was Just too not consider such a proposition, so for ly regard«! as tlie most amicable set sweet to live,” and their mothers de that night the household was minus the tlement of the trouble, and lo and be hold! the marriage was announced to clared tlint lie was a perfectly safe kitten. The next day was spent In looking for take place on the fidlowing Easter young man. while the fatheis and brothers, though not going quite so far, the lov«l though lost, and many of the Tuesday. And Just then did Miss Priscilla Price lied only good words to say of Charlie village boys joined In the hunt, but make her statement that the yellow Price, nt your service. with no result. Now tlie "gentle reader” or, ns some Toward sunset Mabel decided to walk kitten did It, and the entire village writers prefer to say, tile "fair reader.” tin ugh the woods that skirted the vil agreed with her. has doubtless guessed the sequel. lage, thinking possibly her little prodi "BONA-FIDE AMERICAN." Chnrlle was In love with Mabel, ami gal might be somewhere about, aud the wedding, though properly opposed down a shady path she went. She fan- Dr. William Mason Telia an Anecdote by the powers that were, was a natural I cl«l ere long that she heard a moan a of the Violinist Ftenienyi. consequence. But whore or when did ! very sad, klttenly moan It was—and “I have already lmd something to say the yellow kitten come In? All In good soon discovered up In a tree, tangled of Eduard ltemenyi, the Hungarian time, my friends. most promiscuously In creeping vines, violinist who accompanied Brahms to The Campbells and the Prices had a the yellow kitten, unable to free her Weimar In 1853, says a writer In the feud of long standing, originating In self. lu vain Mabel called and tri«! to Century. He was a talented man and the years gone by over the fence entice her from her perilous position; was esteemed by Liszt as being. In his boundary, each head of the family only piteous little meows were the re way, a good violinist. He belonged to claiming twelve feet more of ground sult. If she only had a long stick, or, the class typlfu'd by Ole Bull, but did than the other consider«! bls due. For still better, If she could climb the tree, not achieve so great n reputation. lie tunately this feud was conducted In a something might be done, but the years remained nt Weimar after Brahms left quiet and perfectly lawful manner, ami spent at boarding school had robbed there, mid I beenme Intimately ac poison, bow le knives and pistols did not her of all her childish accomplishments. quainted with him. He was very en- In the nildlst of her dilemma, help tertnlnlng and so full of fun that he figure In It. But the feud was n posi tive one. notwithstanding. No Camp was forthcoming she little dreamed of. would have mail«' a tip-top Irishman. bell or Price had ever been knowu to Through the bushes she heard the He was at home In the gypsy music of shake hands, not even nt a church so sound of approaching footsteps and a ills own country and this was the main cial. which Mis. 'Lias Miller and Miss cheerful whistle. Soon the author of characteristics of Ills playing. He had Rebecca Slow denoune«l far and wide these pleasant noises was In view. It also a fad for playing Schubert melo ns "ont'liristlanllke.” But In spite of was Charlie Price, the family enemy, dies on the violin with the most atten the disapproval of many of their com and, to boot, a splendid young athlete! uate«! pianissimo effects ami occasion mon friends, there was apparently no Mabel forgot the traditions of three ally his hearers would listen Intently chance of any of the members making generations of bitterness ami call«! out after the tone had ceased. Imagining up until well, Just before tills story to her playmate of former days: that they still heard a trace of It "Charlie—Mr. Price, I mean-can you Not long before leaving Weimar I had was written. The places adjoin«!, ns the dlsput«! help me? See my poor yellow kitten; some fun with hint by asking If he had boundary line suggested; In fact the she cannot get down.” pointing, as she ever heard "any bona-fide American whole village had grown up around spoke, to the tree which contained her spoken." He repl!««d that he did not them, and what was once an old coun treasure. know there was such a language. “With pleasure. Miss Mabel! Beg "Well,” said I, “listen to this for a spec try lane where their gates stood, was pardon, Miss Campbell. Poor little imen: ‘Ching a-llng a-darilee, Cbebung now n smart village street. As children, our hero and heroine had beastie she Is caught In the vine.” cum Susan.’ ” I did not meet him several times display«! much contempt And with that he spruug up the tree again until 1878, twenty-four years for the family fuss, and had been seen with tne agility of a squirrel or a circus after leaving Weimar, I was going playing together, though often forcibly rider, and at some peril of broken limbs upstairs to my studio In the Steinway separate«! by Indignant parents with rescued the kitten and placed her In the Building when some one told nn* that threats of lining sent jmpperless to b«l outstretched arms of her young mis llemenyl had arrived nml was rehears If the offense was repeat«!. Evidently tress. ing for his con«'rt In one of the rooms Then It was the most natural thing In above. So. going up. I follow«! the they had Inherited none of the 111 feel ing of their ancestors, which was the world for our hero to walk hottie sounds of the violin, gave a quick mighty unnatural. Miss Priscilla w ith our heroine, and still more natural kniH'k. open«! th«’ door and went In. thought, though, as she always said, I the next «lay when they by chance met Remenyl looked nt tne for a moment, she blamed the mothers on Imtli sides In th«> same woods, to stop ami speak of rushed forward ami selz«l tny hand, who certainly hnd not Inculcated the the lost one. Thus. In spite of the fam and as he wrung It crl«l out: “Ching- proper spirit of righteous resentment ! ily feud, the Intimacy ripened l>etween a ling a dardee. Chebung cum Susan!” and unappeased wrath In their off- ! III«' young brandies. HeTiad remembered It all those years. It was useless for Mabel's parents to spring. Perfidious Man. But when chlldho«! was over. Mabel i protest; tnde«*d, nothing short of a com Mrs. Linguist I want to get a <!1- mand would have stopped this new ami Campbel! was eatrang«! by clreuni- stance from Charlie Price as complete- j delightful friendship, and Charlie bold vori-e. My husband talks In his sleep. Lawyer Soozem - But. tuy dear mad 1» as If an ocean had been between ly announcetl to his paternal that he them Instead of a paling fence. When was tlr«l of keeping up such an antl- am. that is no ground for divorce. she was 18 she came back from board quated fuss; let the grandfathers tight There Is no cruelty In---- - Mrs. Linguist—Rut be talks In Ijttin. ing school aud was pronounce«! old out their own battles In whatever enough for picnics am! socials, ansi world they were now residing, but he. , and I don’t understand that language was, Indeed, tlie ackuowledg«! belle of , for bls part would no longer eucourage at all. Baltimore American, n Thousands of the working girls and men of London, with the assistance of influential mem iters of Parliament, are making a determined effort to alleviate the deplorable conditions under which they are now compelled to labor. The poor shop workers are Imposed upon 1'1 many ways by the rich proprietors or some of the metropolis' biggest depart ment houses and tlie condition of many is described as little better than sla-, very, from which up to the present there has been no hope of escaping, as the majority of the shop workers have no other means of obtaining a liveli hood. One of the systems enforced by some of the proprietors is known as the “llv- lng-ln” system. By this plan the em ployes are lodg«l and fexl together at the employer’s expense and are under hfs jurisdiction night as well as day. The system has many advantages in theory, but In practice they are found to be remarkably few. The grievances of the shop assistants who have to “live tn” begin with their sleeping rooms. Of all the big London shops there are not more than one or two where every assistant has a bed to him self or herself. The general rule. Is two, and sometimes three, In one bed and in a building In a side street near the shop, and at the street door there is a Cerberus who lets in the young men and young women as they arrive, up to the forbidden hour, when the door is shut, and if a girl has been delayed In getting back ft’s ten to one she will have to walk the streets all night un less she can find friends to “put her up.” Just fifteen minutes after the closing hour tlie gas goes out everywhere, aud anyone who has a light later than that time Is discharged. Not even a candle Is allowed. In most houses it is a rule that all rooms shall be unoccupied on Sunday, and most of the assistants are glad to live up to it, but sometimes, when the seventh day happens to be Must Bear Signature of rainy, it comes hard. No marriage is tolerated where “liv ing in” obtains. If the firm gets wind of an affection between a man and a girl one of the two is promptly dis Ses Fac-Similé Wrapper Below. charged. Such houses will not employ a married man If they know It, but sometimes they are outwitted by men who s«*e their better halves only from FOR MEADACME. Saturday to Monday. It Is another FOR DIZZINESS. hard and fast rule that none of the FOR RILIOUSNESS. male employes in these shops may vote. FOR TORPID LIVER. The dining-room is usually a dark FOR CONSTIPATION. one in the cellar, not invariably free FOR SALLOW SKIN. from cockroaches, known in England FOR THE COMPLEXION as black beetles. The meals are served lixu Muar savi uoMATuar. on long oilcloth-covered tables, bare of anything beyond the essential imple ■jMMiuuiua i uu umt ments of gastronomic warfare. As a CURE SICK HEADACHE. rule the food Is Indifferent, for the pro prietor is constantly dissatisfied with Electrical Exhibits at the Pan-American. the chef’s efforts in tlie way of econ If the first 50 years of the present omy, and the bill of fare hardly ever century prove to be as rich in electrical consists of more than three staples. The invention as the last half of the last damp room is lighted with flaring gas century, what progressive years they will be! All of the inventions of the last century will be exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition, while many of the ideas that will develop new in ventions will be born there. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. CARTELS His way. “Was little Bobby restless in church?” "Restless? He acted like a pocket ful of fishiug worms.” Ancient Cities of Note. Every ancient city of note was lo cated on or near the sea or a river. Two Thoughts. HEART OF LONDON'S SHOPPING DISTRICT. eight or nine In every room. The rooms, too, are about as bare and unattractive as It is possible to make them. Iron bedsteads constitute the furniture. There are no chairs, no tables, no cup boards. Every assistant keeps his or her clothes in a trunk under the bed, and if Inadvertently any article is left lying out it is usually confiscated. It Is against the rules to have any pictures, photographs or orna ments on the walls or any flowers, eith er in pots or vases. The girls are for bidden to do any needlework lu their dormitories. Cold water and basins are supplied by the generous house, but the clerks have to get their soap and tow els. If they break any article of furni ture or crockery they have it to pay for. No assistant Is allowed to visit any other assistant In his or her room; none Tin LOXDOX SHOrOIRL. la allow«! to receive a frlemi from out side anywhere in the building. But the hardest rule of all is that the clerk cannot choose bls bedfellow or bed fellows, but Is fore«! to "bunk In” wherever he Is put, and If his bedmates be of bibulous proclivities and come home drunk, or happen to have any disease, why, so much the worse for him. This unbreakable rule Is the same In the girl’s department as In the men's. There Is a sitting-room for the girls and a smoklng-rootn for the men, but they are both always crowded to suffocation, anti the assistant who would like to rea<! a book or write a letter, has no chance at all. It la one of the bitterest cries of what the victims have dubbed "The white slavery" that there is no such thing as privacy—that one Is never al >ne. Again, every assistant half sus pects every other of being on«’ of the flrm’s staff of unknown spies, and they distrust each other accordingly. Everybody must be out of the living rooms by 8 o’clock in the morning anil !j In again at 11 at night by 12 on Sun- I days. The living rooms are generally lights. The stale bread, rancid “butter- Ine,” a pallid chicory mixture that mas querades as “coffee,” stewed tea and tainted meat, and having to bolt it in fifteen or twenty minutes amid a clat ter of dishes, combine to make a ghast ly experience. The clerks go to their meals In “par ties” and are as liable as nottobecalled back to the shop again before they can eat two mouthfuls. If a clerk is busy when his “party” is ready to go he has to wait an hour or more until all the parties have finished, when there Is a special table for stragglers, and If he is busy when that time comes he has to go hungry. It often happens that a man or girl has to work on for eight or nine hours In a busy time without a bite. The proprietor does not have much trouble with grumblers, however bad a table he “sets.” The reason is that he fines his people two shillings sixpence, or 62 cents, a grumble. The London shop man draws a salary of from $150 to $225 a year In addition to his board and lodging; the shop girl $50 a year less. They have to be well dressed, and their little Income Is draln«*d by all sorts of fines, to say nothing of the small sums they often have to spend to eke out their scrimped meals. Of course there is a Hue for every clerical mistake, and the pro prietor encourages those whose busi ness it is to ferret out such slips by pay ing them a small sum for every one they can locate. Most shops have all their rules and the fines attached to them prfut«l in a little book, which they graciously sell to their employes for sixpence and fine them sixpence if they lose it. One well- known London shop lias 198 rules, an other 159. There is a fine for being late, which increases with every minute of tardiness; one for taking a knife, fork or spoon to one's room: a set amount to be paid for every box of goods not properly dusted; for wearing a bunch of flowers over three Inches lu diameter; for leaving the counter be fore the bell for meals has rung. Then there are what are called “omnibus” lines—that Is. the heads of departments “have discretion” to exact a fine for practically any offense. When the clerk has liquidated all the fines that he In curs In the hurry of business and has pakl out small sums for the "doctor,” the shoe black, the shop’s system of ac cident insurance, and so forth, what he has left for himself must be no great sum. Counting the Stare. Today the stars visible from the first to the thirt«*enth magnitude aggregate to nliout 43,000.000 of which nearly 10.006,000 have lieen photograph«!. In the moat powerful teleecofies. even the fifteenth magnitude has been reveal- «1; of this magnitude perhaps 100,000,- 000 stars are suspected. but knowledge coneerning them Is uncertain. In the milky way alone there are some 10,000 stars, separate by vast distances. To the eye at the telescope the sky seems no longer dott«! with constellations, but powdere«! with gold dust. Indians as Manufacturers. Our Indian population Is not skillful In any line of manufacture save their own crude industries. Papa—You saw that big boy whip ping the little one, and you didn’t in terfere? Suppose you had been that little hoy? Bobbie—I did think oi that, an’ was going to part ’em, but then I happened to think, s’pose I was the big boy? So I let ’em alone. Bootblacks in Berlin. Bootblacks are seldom seen on the streets of Berlin, owing to the fact that it is one of the duties of German servant girls to shine shoes in the household, and of porters to attend to it in hotels. There are bootblacks at the principal railway depots, but they find more patrons among women than among men. Companionship. Off Horse—Do you think the man that owns us likes his automobile bet ter? Nigh Horse—Naw; don’t you notice he comes to us when ne wants some thing that can eat an apple out of his hand? $30,000 for Sewage Improvement. Bradford, England, has had a recom mendation from the committee on sew age, calling for the expenditure of more than $30,000 on the improvement of its sewage disposal plant. It is also contemplating immediate street im provements to the amount of $150,000. Used to IL Mr. Lnrker—Excuse me, Miss Snap per, but I have loug sought thia oppor tunity— Miss Snapper—Never mini! the pre- ambel, Mr. Lurker. Run along in and ask pa. He's been expecting this would come for the last two years. A Spider’s Thread. Wbat we call a spider’s thread con sists of more than 4,000 threads united. Slow About Going. "It has always been my rulo,” said Air. Borem, "to spend as 1 go.” "Indeed,” exclaimed Miss Sharpe, glancing significantly at the clock, "in that wsy I suppose you have saved con siderable money.” "Necessity the Mother of Invention.” It is said that "Necessity is the mother uf invention.” Admitting this to be true, who can tell wbat visitor to the Pan-American Exposition will recognize a necessity in some field that will inspire him or her to the discov ery or invention of something that will revolutionize the present day practice of the world in that field. CONSTIPATION "I have cod « 14 day« at a time without a Bsvemeat of the bowel«, not being able to move them except by using hot water inject I one. Chronis constipation for seven years placed me in this terrible condition; during that time I did ev ery thing I beard of but never found any relief such was my ease until ¡began using C'ASCAKBTB. I now nave from one to three passages a day and If I was rich I won id give Hut) (JU for each movement; It issueba relief.' atimih L. H i nt , 1« H umc U bl Detroit Ml oft. F f W CANDY CATHARTIC Kwcwieto TWA Of MAAR Wta>’tTtWtO